H.R.3395: “The Federal Government may not take any action to prevent use of a claim describing any nutrient in a food or dietary supplement,” until completely adjudicated. We have enough holes in our false advertising laws as it is. Wouldn’t this just add more loopholes for an industry that already profits from selling amphetamines to teenagers disguised as nutritional supplements?

This opens the field for full blown quackery. If you are approving this, you may want actually read what it says. Buyer beware. Product claims are allowed unless disproven. I am for deregulation, but this shouldn’t be one of them.

A warning isn’t good enough for me. Some claims shouldn’t be made; and, when it comes to health the burden of proof needs to lie on those making the claims. How do you “prove the claim to be false,” if the drug really does have evidence of curing cancer through the placebo effect? This can’t be worked out in a court room. How do you prove that reading the Bible doesn’t solve depression when 100k people claim it makes them happy every day? This bill would make such a claim perfectly acceptable. But, if the claim could be proven to be false and misleading, you might get a disclaimer put on it. And, if that disclaimer wasn’t enough you could litigate further and get the wording removed. This just comes off as a bigger problem than the current solution with too much power to the trier of fact and not enough for medical consensus.

I wish Paul would vet these bills through me.